Guild Wars 2

Ranger grandmaster trait: Remorseless

add this effect: When your pet gains stealth, it gains opening strike.
(aka you can use “guard” shout to give your pet an opening strike.

new Grandmaster trait in beastmastery: insert cool name

effect: activating a pet (swapping) creates a small, short duration combo field at your location based on the pet type.

You honestly expect people to use Remorseless even with that change? It has 2 incredibly powerful offensive traits it’s competeting with in RtW for ranged weapons and PO for most others. Even if they changed remorseless to reset openning strikes on dodge or evade, I doubt people would use it over RtW (because it’s mandatory if you shoot at 1000+ range) or PO (since axe, sword, and bow have easy access to snares).

At this point they should just make Hunter’s Shot reset openning strikes and change the trait entirely. Probably to something defensive since it’ll have to be enormously powerful to ever be used over RtW or PO. Not to mention EE, PA, or Spotter that you sacrificed originally.

RtW and Po are Restricted to LB and CC builds.

Remorseless is a Trait that allows a Ranger to apply AoE vun hunters shot>barrage.
it trades power/dps for Aoe CC/ damage buff support.

there is only Huntershot on the ranger alone that supports Remorseless , but you can just ask a thief friend to run with you and use his Stealths to boost the remorseless use.

in the end the trait is less greedy than Rtw and Op , and in some builds that focuses on Melee spike rather than LB spike this trait can reverse this effect by going Huntershot >swap>hilt bash >maul or even Huntershot>swap>path of scars (interrupt)>WD to stack tons of Vun.

Damage support vs self damage buffs, a very fine line for the two types of traits.
im sure everyone in Pvp would love to use Remorseless , pitty it is conquest only currently where RtW or Op are of more use.

if it was capture the flag/base or even TvT kill the guild lord like in gw1, a build using Remorseless does have its place at Prepairing targets on a Aoe scale for Vun stacking+ chain spiking.

Guard could be used to maintain Vun on a Target if the traited did added pets regain opening strikes and would improve the Guard Utility too , you told it to guard but it gains nothing but Protection and a good stealth duration.
the Vun from a pet regaining opening strikes would get the skill to act like a Real guard with consequences to a target that approaches a power Bm ranger(gear would be P,P,T mix with P,T,F)
after using guard with big words GUARD , it’ll get the other players to use more caution while Approching the ranger.

so with that , I have no problems with Remorseless Add its effects to Stealthed pets.
the Trade damage vs Aoe Vun in some rotation cycles and additional vun % a little extra dps from pet attacks mainly jaguar and shared stealth from thiefs.

PvE wise Vunrability is already stacking 25 in nearly all medium to large events just by using Opening strikes adding more would only give a Rangers Jaguar pet or stealthed pet to apply Vun / adding a % of dps more. it is nether here or there.

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

RtW and Po are Restricted to LB and CC builds.

You do realize every single weapon has access to soft CC right? Even the great sword has sword throw for cripple.

Substance E.4852:

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

RtW and Po are Restricted to LB and CC builds.

You do realize every single weapon has access to soft CC right? Even the great sword has sword throw for cripple.

well ya but others have more and others have less, anyhow the point was that the change would Benifit the use of Remorseless in more than just huntershots and shared stealth.